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Everywhere in the Rebel States disloyal persons are struggling for power; and now at the door of the Senate we witness a similar struggle.
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Sumner observes that disloyal individuals are vying for power in the Rebel States and similarly in the Senate.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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